Saturday, 17 September 2016

More Evidence for Reincarnation

If the mind
is just a function of the brain, it stands to reason that the worse the brain
is injured, the worse the mind would function. While this is what much of current
brain research is finding, a body of evidence exists suggesting otherwise:
under extreme circumstances, such as close to death, the mind may function
well—or even better than usual—when the brain is impaired.

This
suggests the mind may function independently of the brain.

One of the
researchers who has been studying such cases is Dr. Alexander Batthyany, a
professor of theoretical psychology and the philosophy of psychology in
Liechtenstein and at the cognitive science department at the University of
Vienna.

In his most
recent study, published this month in
the Journal of Near-Death Studies, Batthyany and his colleagues reviewed
thousands of accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) to determine the quality
of vision and cognition.

He reported:
“The more severe the physiological crisis, the more likely NDEers are to report
having experienced clear and complex cognitive and sensory functioning.”

Part of
Batthyany’s goal was to replicate earlier studies, few as they are, that have
looked at the quality of vision and cognition during NDEs.

In a 2007
study by researchers at the University of Virginia, titled “Unusual
Experiences: Near Death and Related Phenomena,” 52.2 percent of NDEers reported
clearer vision. Jeffrey Long, M.D., founder of the Near Death Experiences
Research Foundation (NDERF), found in a survey of 1,122 NDEers, that about 74
percent reported “more consciousness and alertness.”

“I felt
extremely aware, totally present, sharp, and focused. In hindsight, it’s like
being half asleep when I was alive, and totally awake after I was pronounced
dead,” said one experiencer, as noted in Batthyany’s study.

“It’s like being half
asleep when I was alive, and totally awake after I was pronounced dead.”

— NDEer

“My mind
felt cleared and
my thoughts seemed quick and decisive. I felt a great sense of freedom and was
quite content to be rid of my body. I felt a connection with everything around
me in a way that I cannot describe. I felt as if I was thinking faster or that
time had slowed down considerably,” said another.

While
Batthyany’s study confirmed, to a certain extent, the results of the previous
studies that had shown an increase in cognitive and sensory functioning during
NDEs, his methodology had some limitations. He said these limitations may have
led to lower estimates for the percentage of NDEers who have heightened
cognition.

Methodology Limitations

He compiled
thousands of written accounts from online repositories of experiences, such as the NDERF
website, and ran them through a computer program, which identified words
related to vision or cognition (such as “saw” or “thought”).

He and his
colleagues then rated the quality of vision or cognition described in this
smaller sample on a scale from -2 to +2. They further narrowed their study to
experiences that included detailed explanations of the medical conditions that
accompanied the NDEs. Only patients with cardiac and/or respiratory arrest were
included in this study.

Previous
studies had asked NDEers directly about the quality of their vision and
cognition. Batthyany’s study, however, could only analyze the information given
in general NDE accounts. So, for example, when he decided that there was “no
change” in cognition or vision in some accounts, it may have been that there
was indeed a change but that the NDEer hadn’t described it specifically
enough to be counted.

Of the
NDEers who mentioned visual perception, about 47 percent said they had enhanced
vision. And 41 percent had unchanged vision, “which in itself is quite
remarkable, given that these patients were in a severe medical crisis, and
often unconscious,” Batthyany said in an email to Epoch Times.

Of the
NDEers who made explicit references to awareness and mentation, about 35
percent said they had increased awareness and mentation. And about 61
percent reported normal everyday awareness during cardiac and respiratory
arrest.

Given the
implications of his study, Batthyany was careful to note other shortcomings in
his methodology, including the fact that online NDE descriptions may include
some fraudulent reports. But, he also noted reasons that these methodological
shortcomings do not likely impact his overall finding that NDEs, by and large,
include improved vision and cognition.

For example,
concerning the risk of including fraudulent accounts, he wrote: “On NDERF, the
largest contributor of NDEs studied here, less than 1 percent of posted NDEs
have been removed due to concerns about their validity. Additionally, given the
sheer number of accounts, it is unlikely that fake reports have significantly
biased our results in one or the other direction. One would expect fake
accounts … to be prototypical of the popular NDE narrative.”

Patients
who have been completely incoherent for many years seem to suddenly return to
their senses shortly before death.

In addition
to these NDE studies, studies on the phenomena of terminal lucidity and
mindsight also support the conclusion that the mind may engage in complex
conscious activity even as brain functioning severely deteriorates, Batthyany
said.

Terminal Lucidity, Mindsight

He has studied
terminal lucidity in Alzheimer’s patients. This is a phenomenon in which patients
who have been completely incoherent for many years seem to suddenly return to
their senses shortly before death.

When the
brain is at the furthest stage of degeneration, the expectation would be
that the ability to make coherent connections between memories and various
thoughts and emotions would be so far gone that a “whole” person could no
longer emerge. Yet at this time, the whole mind seems to flash through, with
all its connections intact.

“Mindsight”
refers to the phenomenon in which
blind people report being able to see during NDEs. This has been studied,
for example, by Kenneth Ring at the University of Connecticut. Ring found that
15 out of 21 blind participants reported some kind of sight during NDEs.

Hallucinations?

Batthyany
noted that some scientists consider NDEs to be hallucinations produced by
neurophysiological processes.

“The findings
reported in this paper and cases of terminal lucidity and mindsight, however,
appear to suggest otherwise in that they indicate the presence of complex and
structured conscious experience during decline, breakdown, or absence of the
neurobiological correlates commonly held to be causative factors of NDEs—and of
conscious experience in general,” he said.

He concluded
that consciousness—including a sense of selfhood, complex visual imagery, and
mental clarity—can sometimes outlive altered brain functioning, including even
a flatline of electrical activity in the brain.

Terminal
lucidity and mindsight are very rare phenomena, but NDEs are more numerous and
“our results suggest that the continuity of visual imagery, mentation, and
sense of selfhood is the rule rather than the exception during NDEs.”

One Man’s Tale of Dying—And Then Waking Up

Near-death
experiences are extraordinary. The idea of leaving one’s body at the point of death,
traveling to a heavenly realm and seeing beloved relatives who have passed is
truly a hero’s journey.

I have
written a dozen books on the subject, and I am constantly in contact with
near-death experience researchers as well as those who have had the experience.
Their stories may eventually answer mankind’s greatest question: What happens
when we die?

Which brings
us to Dr. Rajiv Parti, former chief of anesthesiology at Bakersfield Heart
Hospital. His is most likely the best near-death experience I have ever heard,
not just for the experience itself, but for the transformation it led to.

In 2008 Dr. Parti was Chief of
Anesthesiology at Bakersfield Heart Hospital in California. He derived his
identity and happiness from the incredible wealth and prestige his job gave
him. He lived in a mansion, had several luxury cars and was able to purchase
most any material goods he wanted.

For some
reason this made him feel invincible.

In August of
that year everything changed. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer. A routine
surgery eradicated the cancer, but led to complications that left him
incontinent and in excruciating pain. He was prescribed pain meds that he soon
became addicted to, and within time he was diagnosed with depression, too.

On Dec. 14,
2010, he went to UCLA Medical Center for the surgical placement of an
artificial urinary sphincter. In the days after this surgery he began running a
fever of 104 to 105 degrees. Heavy antibiotics were prescribed, but he was not
getting better.

Although
deeply asleep from anesthesia, he was very aware that his consciousness had
separated from his body. From a vantage point near the ceiling he said he could
see the surgeon cut him, and then all of the operating room personnel react as
the odor of the pus from his infected abdomen seeped throughout the room. He
saw a nurse apply eucalyptus-scented water to everyone’s surgical masks. He
even heard the anesthesiologist tell a joke so dirty that he blushed when he
later told it to the anesthesiologist in the recovery room.

Dr. Parti
then left the operating room and began to drift toward familiar voices in
India, where he could hear his mother and sister talking about dinner
preparations, deciding on rice, vegetables, yogurt and legumes. He could see
they were bundled up to protect themselves from the foggy, frigid air that
night. A small electric heater glowed, helping to take the chill out of the
room.

Dr. Parti
became euphoric. “People are never far away,”
he thought. He said he had the sense of his presence spreading
around the world, a feeling of oneness with the world and everyone in it.

Then fear
overcame him when his awareness drifted to a place where a great, wild fire was
raging. He could see lightning in dark clouds and smell the odor of burning
meat. He said he realized that an unseen force was pulling him into Hell,
leaving him “in the midst of souls who were screaming and suffering.”

“What is my
Karma,” he wondered. “What did I do in my life or past life to deserve this
punishment?”

In the
middle of this horror, Dr. Parti began to have the strong awareness that the
life he was living was very materialistic. His life was always about him. So
much so, in fact, that when he met new people Dr. Parti asked himself: “What
can I get from this person?”

The truth
dawned on him there in Hell: the life he was living on earth was without love.
He was not practicing compassion or forgiveness toward himself or others. He
also had an unsavory tendency to be harsh toward people he perceived to be
lower than him in status. He felt deeply sorry for his lack of kindness,
wishing he could have done certain things in his life differently. As soon as
he had that realization, Hell faded away.

Transcendence
and transformation are what interest me most in near-death experiences. In my
research, I rarely meet a person who hasn’t been transformed by their
experience. These people become kinder, gentler versions of the person they
were before. Sometimes this change is so complete that they are no longer
recognizable. That was the case with Dr. Parti. His brush with death opened an
entirely new world to him—an otherworld
if you will—that replaced the materialistic world he had so
carefully constructed.

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4 comments:

What happens when we die? The physical we that we know is composed of energy and the energy of the body is transformed from one form to another, but cannot be created or destroyed. The socially accepted idea of this law of nature is known as the 1st thermodynamic... Now, if we're sensitive feely type sheeple then we may need a religion to give us meaning to the reality of death so we can pacified ourselves with BS so we can sleep better at night, right? The bigger question about NDE is always related to the fact that we didn't die, and since we didn't die we can't observe the death experience can we? Since we can't observe the death experience until we die then there really can't be a scientific study to conduct, correct? Really is there anybody out there that will repudiate this fact?

Yes, lets create a new religion and call it NDE's and see how many books we can sell and how much funny money we can make!

I do think that consciousness survives the body. And I think that whatever consciousness an individual holds is what shall transpire during near death. For instance, if one believes or craves to see their loved ones, that is what they will experience, etc. Personally, I do not think we take a body or a personality into Paradise. How could one take an ego into a higher realm,and who would want to? If one clings to such an ideology through consciousness, one would most likely return to a realm in which ego via a physical brain and body is required. Of course having the sense one is still a body and or ego could be temporary, a sort of temporary stage in transition. That is the danger, I think, in the steady belief of Matrix Religions. Having strong adherance to any given human-created religious belief system while in a body, could determine the experience after death. Just follow the Golden Rule, or Natural Law, which has always existed and was around a long time before the Jesus religion. Some of the NDE's of people occur after they have actually been declared dead by doctors. I have read accounts wherein people were actually in the morgue and woke up. That is an important point to remember as regards to the above comment. And just think, all the quite evil oligarchs, filthy rich, who see humans and life itself, as something to be owned and controlled, will meet the truth one day. You can't buy nor bribe, nor threaten Cosmic law. It might appear as though they own the world and everything in it, and are quite literally getting away with genocide and endless amounts of cruelty and greed, indeed might even destroy much if not all of life on Earth. But in truth, no one gets away with anything. There is a price to pay for refusing to follow natural law. I have always known that truth intuitively and no religion had to inform me. Now just remember, follow natural law, stay strong, and repeat to yourself, no matter what happens, I am conscious all the time. Most likely, most of us won't be able to maintain such a focus, due to our physical brain, and living in the physical realm of energy. Just remember to focus, no matter what happens I am conscious all the time, when near death and beyond. I certainly desire to move toward space consciousness. I do not want to ever return to this realm, although I don't want to resist so much that I actually attach myself for another go.Thanks for a beautiful reminder, New Illuminati. I am grateful for the scientists that study consciousness, especially since they are derided so much from others. And I am grateful for your steady work in helping us all go higher. Peace.

have to laugh about this one...spontaneous past life memories and strange attractions also culminating in the same..cleaning up the mess includes walking in their shoes and extreme compassion for ourselves and others, good luck on/and getting it right this time, it's a conscious perspective kaleidoscope...

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